Tokyo Art, architecture and travel
Let Wallpaper* guide you through the worlds of art, design and architecture in Tokyo - and discover where to go and what to see when you travel to Tokyo.
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Tokujin Yoshioka on his new light-filled store for Issey Miyake in Ginza, Tokyo
Titled ‘Issey Miyake Ginza / 442’ the new store is summed up by ‘light, future and sustainability’, says Tokujin Yoshioka. Here, he takes Wallpaper* inside the new four-storey Ginza outpost
By Danielle Demetriou • Published
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№ 001 Minami Aoyama is an Aston Martin architectural venture in Tokyo
№ 001 Minami Aoyama is a bespoke residence for an Aston Martin collector, located in the heart of Tokyo’s Omotesando; shaped by Aston Martin, Vibroa, and Intentionallies, it’s due for completion in 2023
By Jonathan Bell • Last updated
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Designart Tokyo transforms the city into a museum of creativity
Designart Tokyo presents global design highlights through a series of exhibitions involving global creative talent and traditional Japanese craft
By Danielle Demetriou • Last updated
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Tokyo Motorshow count down of the top ten new automobiles
By Guy Bird • Last updated
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Print your own mini-me at the Omote 3D photo booth
By Catherine Shaw • Last updated
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ZHA attempts to save its Tokyo Olympic Stadium from the scrapheap
By Ali Morris • Last updated
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Paris’ Palais de Tokyo reopens
By Amy Verner • Last updated
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’Virgule etc’: Roger Vivier’s storied shoes go on show at Paris’ Palais de Tokyo
By Ellen Himelfarb • Last updated
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Tokyo Motor Show 2013: the top 10 cars
By Jonathan Bell • Last updated
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Colour injection: Daido Moriyama leaves monochrome behind for new Paris show
By Amy Verner • Last updated
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La vie magnifique: a trio of artists celebrate the banal at Palais de Tokyo
Ugo Rondinone, Ragnar Kjartansson and Mélanie Matranga take over Paris' Palais de Tokyo with a trio of shows that celebrate the beauty of the everyday
By Ali Morris • Last updated
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Adam Nathaniel Furman’s colourful vision for a Tokyo apartment
By Ali Morris • Last updated
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The Palais de Tokyo's latest exhibition 'Inside' has us all wrapped up
By Amy Verner • Last updated
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Charting the unique make-up of Japanese architecture
By Jens Jensen • Last updated
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The space of change: charting the peculiarity of Japanese houses
By Jessica Klingelfuss • Last updated
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Hublot’s Tokyo watch boutique plays on glass and crystal
The flagship boutique in Ginza is Hublot’s largest retail space to date
By Hannah Silver • Last updated
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The Millennials is a modern, updated version of Japan’s famed capsule hotel concept
By Danielle Demetriou • Last updated
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Tsumamigui — Tokyo, Japan
By Jens Jensen • Last updated
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Robots track Tokyo 2020 Olympic highlights to create public art
In The Constant Gardeners, Jason Bruges Studio’s new public art installation, four robotic ‘gardeners’ use live data from the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games to create striking artworks
By Harriet Lloyd-Smith • Last updated
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A contemporary tea room and shop opens in Tokyo
By Catherine Shaw • Last updated
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Found Muji
By Nick Compton • Last updated
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The Café by Aman — Tokyo, Japan
By Jens Jensen • Last updated
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Theaster Gates explores the troubling history of a coastal community forced out of home
For his first solo museum show in France, the Chicago-based artist dives into the dark past of the now-uninhabited Malaga Island off the coast of Maine
By Amy Verner • Last updated
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Swedish studio Claesson Koivisto Rune designs K5, a new hotel in Tokyo
By Danielle Demetriou • Last updated
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Anne Imhof: body language as tool, canvas and concept
Anne Imhof is one of five radical artists chosen by Michèle Lamy for Wallpaper’s 25th Anniversary Issue ‘5x5’ project. In the midst of Imhof’s carte blanche at Paris’ Palais de Tokyo, we explore how she has redefined the concept of body language
By Harriet Lloyd-Smith • Last updated
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teamLab: how a Tokyo art collective pioneered an immersive art boom
With an operatic intervention and a show at Pace Geneva, teamLab, the now-700-strong Tokyo-based collective that blazed a trail for experiential, tech-fuelled art, continues to value ‘physical interaction in physical space’
By Nick Compton • Last updated
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Muji opens its largest standalone store topped with its newest hotel in Ginza, Tokyo
By Jens Jensen • Last updated